There was widespread outrage in the wake of an especially ugly campaign for municipal elections in the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba.
The resident of the city were shocked on Thursday to discover provocative signs against the Chareidi and Dati Leumi sectors plastered throughout the city by the Meretz party.
The signs, with photos of UTJ chairman Yitzchak Goldknopf, Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, and Noam chairman Avi Moaz, state: “No entry to Kfar Saba” and in small letters: “Meretz will keep Kfar Saba free.”
The campaign drew angry reactions even from the left. A Maariv reporter tweeted: “To sum up the sign uproar: Meretz will keep Kfar Saba free by denying the freedom of the religious. The most liberal and pluralistic in the world.”
A Twitter user wrote: “The fact that this idea became billboards without anyone in Meretz’s campaign stopping and saying ‘Well, the anti-Semitic scent here is much too strong’ is astounding. It’s no longer surprising but it’s still astounding and deeply disgusting. I hope that every Kfar Sabai that respects himself will stay away from Meretz.”
Another surfer tweeted: “If it were up to me, this evening there would be a procession of a million Charedim plus another million citizens who are tired of this sick and filthy incitement, a march to the heart of Kfar Saba.”
Makor Rishon Naveh Dromi wrote: “Throwing money at Chareidim doesn’t look good and it turns out that on buses you meet Chareidim who serve in the army. So to avoid unpleasantness, it’s better that they just don’t enter.”
The Kfar Saba Meretz party responded: “The predatory and corrupt coalition is trying to carry out a revolution in Israel. The cities and local government are the last barriers to its takeover. We will not let the coalition members do whatever they want in the city. Kfar Saba will remain the freest and most liberal city in Israel. There is no entry here for such dark agendas.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Sinas Chinam once again. We haven’t learned yet from two expulsions from EY that Hashem hates sinas chinam.
The name Meretz is a euphemism.
They selected the name Meretz because they have no merits.
Meretz is the party of hate.
“Kfar Saba will remain the freest and most liberal city in Israel.”
Yes – it will be the freest and most liberal – but only for people who think exactly like those who posted the signs. This is in keeping with their new definition of democracy and pluralism; it includes only those who agree with their dogma. Anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a non-person and excluded from democracy and pluralism. In other words, secular coercion.
In this sense, free is interpreted quite similarly to the Yiddish frei – free from HKB”H, Torah and mitzvos c”v.
How would Meretz politicians react to a US Democratic council campaign with a Billboard “NO ENTRY TO JEWS”?!
This is actually gevaldig! What a compliment to Kfar Saba!
You see, in Bnei Brak you would never see signs stating “No entrance to Meretz” because the chilonim have no standing in the city. There is no need to exclude those that do not exist. The chareidim are strong and in control of Bnei Brak.
In Kfar Saba there MUST be a real presence of charadim and supporters of yiddishkeit. It is for that reason that Meretz tries to strengthen the weakening chilonim from the presence of the chareidim.
THAT is a great compliment to Kfar Saba!
Frum not crum: In Ben Yehuda’s Hebrew, Meretz means energy, and the way they’re behaving lately, they’ve got lots of it and its expression is becoming more and more vitriolic and violent.
Note that they did not pass the electoral threshold in these last elections. They feel threatened, knowing that they are a dying breed, so their energy is borne of desperation. Very sad. Don’t forget that they are our brothers and sisters. We need to daven that Hashem opens their eyes so that they stop themselves before they get smashed at the bottom of their accelerated slippery slope.
לא ידח ממנו נידח
The left are the party of civility.